I thoroughly agree!

Listening to it now. I love Scott's perspective on what makes this place unique, and he's got a great voice for this!

37 mins in -- what does reverse Kirby art look like? Instead of larger than life, down to Earth and muted. "no attempt to portray action as active." Makes the violence more chilling. "It's drawn the same way as the guy eating a bagel in the last panel." Violence as a slice of life.

39 mins in -- my colleague in the room is laughing nervously and wondering what the hell this is. "It's from the '40s???"

46 mins in -- these "public service announcement" stories, were these perhaps done as a reaction to pressure from the public or government? The climate is beginning to become ripe for Wertham and Communist scares.

48 mins in -- "Dilly Dunkin". Wow. That name is terrible. Someday, someone needs to explore all the Archie rip-offs of the Atom Age.

53 mins in -- "Crimebuster gets a pair of pants." I just laughed far too loud for my workplace.

55 mins in -- "At first, Crimebuster refused to wear the pants." This is the best podcast ever.

57 mins in -- Lev Gleeson had stable enough distribution to do a 3 issue story arc? Wow. Commentary on "The Vacuum" is again hilarious.

60 mins in -- Stimpy, Sniffer, Dilly. I love these names.

62 mins in -- Ironjaw initially sounded terrifying. Hard to believe he can be played for laughs.


Pausing again at 65 mins in.

I probably won't have a chance to listen to it until after work Saturday night or sometime on Sunday, but I plan on giving it a whirl. I've read a grand total of 1 Crimebuster* story from Boy Comics in my life and none of the other features, so I have a lot to learn and hope I don't get overwhelmed.

-M

* I have one story reprinted in an issue of Men of Mystery from AC Comics.

69 mins in -- Rocky X gets reassigned from space to Korea in order to fight the communists??

71 mins in -- First time I've heard someone acknowledge that there was a legitimate need for some sort of regulation in comics targeted to children (I agree)

Congrats!

You will have me as an avid listener! Hopefully you can incorporate topics and ideas here into it, as well as get people here on to talk with you on occasion. Thank you for representing a forum that I believe to be the go-to place for anything classic comic on the entire web.

I kind of ran out of steam at the end and gave the boy's adventure issues from #107-119 a bit of a short shrift. The strip gains a lot of Archie elements, but works a lot better than Dilly Duncan because Biro isn't trying to play it for laughs. In these issues, Chuck Chandler gets a whole new supporting cast at school, including a best friend named Stu, and a rival named Jocko. With Kubert drawing him, he's also clearly older at this point than he was in the early issues - I have him at 18 when the series ends.




You'd believe it even less if you read the attempts to make him funny.




Thanks! I definitely did not intend for it to run that long; I thought it would be 45-50 minutes. In the future I'm going to try to keep it to an hour tops.




I certainly hope so as well. I just did my first test run recording a Skype call. It worked, but the audio for the other person was kind of tinny with a bit of an echo. It's not great, but I'm not sure how to get the sound quality any better short of having the guests record their own audio, which seems like a hassle.